Lamp-socket holder



Feb. 21, 1928.

H. E. ADAMS LAMP SOCKET HOLDER Filed Dec. 20. 1926 Patented Feb. 21,1928.

UNITED 'STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'HARRY n. ADAMS, or rotnno, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE w. G.nnenn-nrno'raiccon- PANY} OF TOLEDO,

onto, A CORPORATION or onto.

LAMP- SOCKET HOLDER.

Application-filedDecember 1926. Serial No. 156,051.. 7

This invention ,relates particularly to lamp socket holders for; use inconnection with the instrument panels of automohlles, and has for itsobject the provision of a socket holder of this type which is simple,rapid and inexpensive to manufacture and adapted to be easily andquickly secured to an instrument board in a rigid and secure mannerwithout soldering or welding.

The invention is fully described in the following specification, and oneembodiment thereof illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,-

Figure 1 is an instrument panel showing an inner end view of a lampsocket holder embodying the invention attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation thereof. Figs. 3 and i are plan views of the blank from whichthe socket holder is formed in different operation stages, Fig. 5 is anenlarged perspective view of the blank 1n socket holder form preparatoryto being attached to a panel, and Fig. 6 is a slightly modifiedsectional view of the socket holder with a lamp socket and lamp mountedin one permissible position therein. r

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates an instrument panel which. isusually of stamped sheet metal andis provided with instrument receivingopenings 2. The socket holder 3 embodying the invention, in the presentinstance, is intended to be attached to the panel 1 by inserting theinner end portion of the socket holder through an opening 4 provided inthe panel, and the socket holder is provided with bendable spurs at itsinner end for opposed engage ment with opposite sides of the marginaledge portion of the wall of the opening 4: to securely retain the memberto the panel.

In the formation of the socket holder 8 a,

sheet metal blank 5 is first formed, such blank having an elongated bodyportion 6 with alternating short and long spurs 7 and 8, respectively,

thereof and with fingers 9 projecting in spaced relation from theopposite side edge thereof. After the blank 5, shown in Fig. 3, has beencut, it is subjected to a second operation which bends the short spurs 7laterally in the same direction from the blank body 6 and effects acrimping of the outer end portions of the fingers 9 so as to provide thetransverse recesses 10 and the outwardly flaring end portions 11, suchrecesses projecting from one side edge i being atthe opposite side oftheblank to that from which the spurs 7 project, as shown in Fig. 4:. i

When the blank has been given'the formation shown in Fig. vel, its body6 is rolledinto cylindrical form with the ends thereof substantiallymeeting, thereby. forming a socket holder with the spurs 7 and 8projecting from one end and the fingers 9 projecting from the other end.Thishaving been done, the spurs .8 are inserted through the panel 1. inthe present instance through, an opening 4 provided therein, themovement of the spurs 8 through the panel being stopped or limited bythe engagement with the adjacent side of the panel of the turnedoutspurs 7. The spurs8 are now turned out to have engagement with the panelor marginal edge wall of the opening 4 in 0pp0sition to the spurs 7 sothat the socket holder is rigidly and securely held in assembledrelation to the panel.

The size of the socket holder 3 corresponds to the size'of the lampsocket that is to be mounted therein, and the fingers 9 of the socketholder are intended to have yielding holding engagement with the socket.The

recesses 10 in the fingers 9 are intended to receive a projecting rib orprotuberance on the socket and to yieldingly hold the socket (iiiagainst withdrawal. The ends of the fingers are preferably turned out tofacilitate an insertion of the socket.

It is apparent that Ihave provided a simple and eflicient form of lampsocket holder which maybe easily and quickly secured to a panel memberand which is adapted to receive and have releasable yielding engagementwith a lamp socket.

It is also apparent that a lamp socket may be disposed in the holderwith its lamp projecting withoutthe free end of the holder, or thesocket may be disposed in reverse position therein, so that its lamprays are directed either through the inner open end of the holderorthrough side windows 12 that may be provided in the body portion ofthe holder, or both, as shown in Fig 6.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1. A lamp mounting for use with a panel having an opening extendingtherethrough, including a lamp socket holder composed of an annularmetal body having one edge thereof formed with a series of spacedfingers to engage a lamp socket and having lts opposite edge formed witha series of radial spurs and with a series of longitudinal spurs,

said body being split whereby to enable of spaced fingers to engage alamp socket and having its opposite edge formed with an upper series ofradial spurs, and with a lower series of spurs, said spurs of the lowerseries being bendable so asto lie in the/plane of the body; thereby toallow the lower spursupon contraction of the body to he slid into andout of the panel openingand in sliding into the opening to cause slidingmovement of the body to-be arrested by theupper spurs, the-lower spursbeing bendable about the lower side of the body to engage the panel soas to clamp thelatter between the two series of spurs.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name to thisspecification. 7

' HARRY E. ADAMS.

